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"I guess I underestimated how fast Dragonite could move." Valorie replied in an awkward, somewhat joking tone. She glanced over her shoulder as if searching for someone visually for a moment. However, there was nothing for her to find at the moment. She turned back to Mark. "I'll be fine though, and I guess..." she said, that last part in a rather half-hearted tone. She was hungry, but she had no intention of eating much. Without waiting for a response however she seemed to perk up. "Hey, I think the plates are over there." she said, gesturing to a table off to the side with various silverware, condiments, as well as plates n' bowls--Stuff like that. She moved over and grabbed two, offering the second one to Mark. "I'm not gonna have much..." she said in a thoughtful tone as she shuffled to put a few things on her plate, attempting to avoid getting trampled by the other much taller students.

Mana MurasakiThe Espeon girl
At the Cafetaria

Kilik answered Mana's question with a rather expressionless looking face. He said the food was okay, was he kidding? the food was amazing! Somehow Mana knew Kilik wasn't feeling so well, but asking him probably was no option... it's not like he'll tell her anyway. He asked Mana how she came to have Espeon DNA running through her blood, didn't she explain that earlier? or didn't she? Mana wasn't sure of herself anymore and choosed to explain again with ofcourse, Fox watching her every movement.

"It all started when my mother deceased when I was younger," Mana took a small break to take a bite of her delicious looking Salmon filet, but soon she swallowed it away and continued to explain. "I never had a good bond with my father so when my mother deceased it only got worser. Soon he took away my precious Eevee for his experiments in the lab where he worked." Mana glanced at the plate she was holding as her hunger slowly started to fade. Afterall, this wasn't one of her best memories. "My father is a scientist and after a few months I heard him cussing about how his experiment failed and that my precious Eevee had evolved to an Espeon. His experiment was about finding a new eeveelution and since Felicity had evolved... there was a high chance for him to get fired." Mana took another break again, just to take a bite from her delicious-looking fish. "... His boss ordered him to offer his only daughter for a new experiment where they tried to create a human with Pokémon features. This contained Pokémon attacks and their looks, however... this experiment failed as well when it seemed like I didn't have any of these Pokémon features and only could use attract. His boss allowed him to take me home, but... once I got home..." Mana's smile was gone, this...

"My father had this disgusted look on his face and called me all kind of things before telling me I wasn't allowed to stay and had to leave his home." Mana's smile returned, there was a little feature of sadness found in that smile though. She didn't like to talk about this experience, and she already had told more than she was planning to. It certainly was because this was the first time she had shared the secret she had held on to for so long... and now three people knew about it!

“So, do you have any other Pokemon besides.. Trunks, was it?” C.J. asked as Issac was putting his schedule and jacket in his bag.

"Nope, It's just me and him." Issac replied looking down at the Turtwig with a smile. Trunks looked back up at him, "Twwwwig!" The pokemon exclaimed.
"Hoping to find Trunks some new friends, though." Issac continued as he picked his bag back up and started making his way to the exit.
"So.. I am in the Raikou dorm. I wonder how everyone is in there. Kind of nervous to be honest. Besides my family, Roark, and Trunks I have never really hung out with a lot of people."

Mark accepted the second plate and took a bit of food himself. He had already eaten himself so he didn't take too much... After getting some food he lead Valorie over to a nearby table so they could sit there together. "Heh, well eat what you have to! You've had a long day and such... Its been a pretty crazy day myself I gotta say..." Mark said, attempting to get into conversation with Valorie. He kept asking himself to just ask her out but he couldn't! He was way too shy.

As Able flew out she caught a glimpse of Len and Diana together. She quickly held onto Tyro's hand and dragged him inside of a nearby bush, peeking out at the two. "Ohhh! Tyro you seeing what I'm seeing?" Able whispered.

Len chuckled and flexed again. "Ha! Just wait till I evolve! I'll be even stronger!" Len said. He sat down once more and put an arm around Diana, cuddling against her.

Well, it seemed those two were getting along now. No doubt Mark had already asked her out, so that could have all lead to this. She knew he was confident in himself! Now, she just needed to take a quick trip around tomorrow, find the perfect spot and let them just relax. Yes, Lucia was awesome indeed! She just smiled and stood up, grabbing her plates and silverware and cleaning them off and putting them in the dirty dishes pile and began to walk off. It wouldn't do to have her here constantly staring. Mark's battle was his own, not hers. Samuel and Roberto of course followed after her as she departed into the hallways.

Tyro was pulled into the bushes. "Oh! IseethemyeahDianaisgettingamanandsuchandLenisgettingagirlheywhydon'tyouhaveaguyyet?" He asked suddenly turning the conversation toward Able.

Diana giggled as she watched his muscles tense up and cuddled up with him. "A wonderful night this has been."

Drake paused at that question. Who was he? Dragon Master? Gym Leader? Pokémon Trainer? Daycare Man? Pokémon Breeder? What did any of that mean? He loved pokemon an tried to take care of them the best way he knew how. Chosen by the Dragon Elder with Lance and Clair, worthy of that lofty title. But it was a title. Odd, he spent so much time focusing on his titles he had forgotten who he was.

"Hm... That is a long and difficult question. Let me give you a shorter answer though... I'm a man that cares about pokemon, and about his friends. Valorie, of course, s included, as are you, Killik, Mana, Lance, Clair, and Asha." he began, realizing just how few people he actually considered friends. Funny that Asha was still a friend... Even after she crushed him like that. "I am a Dragon Master and I run the Daycre Center not too far from here. Valorie is... My student I guess you can say."

Kiki and Jen

Jen made a sort a tch sound, looking moderately annoyed. The boy yelped when the trio began towards them and reverted to a zorua form, who was picked up by Jen.

"Humph, coward. Like I care about your friend, I'm more worried about my own. But why am I wastng time with scrubs like you. I have better things to do with my time. Come Dusk, we're leaving these losers." the ivory haired teenager said, holding her zorua and turning to walk away. Kiki blinked a bit.

"Um... What a jerk..." she mumbled, standing on her own now. She looked around and smiled.

"So where are we? What are we doing here?" she asked with a bright smile, her usual demeanor restored

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What is real? What is truth? Is it something you can touch? Can you see it? Find it? Hold it in your hands? What is true for you is not always the truth for someone else.

"... Oh." Kiyoko replied rather blankly, and started to suck on his index finger with an empty gaze, as if he were trying to process each and every word, unfamiliar with some of them. "Um..." He started, though trailed off for a few seconds. "Can I be your student too?" He looked up at the guy's face. "Valorie wants to win battles... If not she gets really sad... But if I can win for her she'll be happy, right? Can you teach me?"

Andy watched Jen go wordlessly, not having it in him to throw in a last word. He was still /very/ worried about Kiki and looked to her with a worried smile. Taking in how much better she looked, Andy sighed somewhat. Was she really okay, or just pretending to be okay? If anyone knew what it was like to be faking good health, it was Andy. Not wanting to seem like he was angry or anything, Andy instead raised a hand to Kiki's forehead for but a moment before pulling it away again. He wasn't sure what to make of it.

"Are you sure you're okay to walk, Kiki? After a fall like that... Well... A fall... Or wha-" Andy stopped mid-sentence. True to form, Andy had only realized how odd her question was when he was already half-way through a sentence. Andy narrowed his gaze , his eyebrows furrowing. Was she really that out of it? Or was this just Kiki being Kiki? Andy's usual calm and carefree demeanor had begun to drain rapidly from him, leaving a rather grim person that didn't really seem like the boy from before.

"You're joking, right? You don't know where we are...?" Andy's question was rather pointed, and he regretted his tone immediately afterwards, switching back to auto-mode. "I mean... You can't be feeling too fantastic if you can't even remember why we came here so soon after arriving, right...?" Andy was so busy paying attention to Kiki, he didn't realize how hard he was focusing on her well-being. No head-ache showed any sign of itself, yet an eerie presence was now hovering close to Andy, almost indiscernible to any person or pokemon.

As many could foresee, Jello's attack had no effect. His opponent used Sand Attack combined with gust to counter it, and with Jello's eyes covered with sand and no limbs to brush it off, the windy attack hit the purple ball as if it had been launched right next to him. Alice was getting more and more nervous, and tried to think of a defensive move that would delay her seemingly inevitable -to her- loss.

"Jello, Reflect!" she shouted.

Despite being blinded, Jello used his psychic powers to create a wall of light. Alice hoped that it would help Jello withstand more damage until he could actually strike his foe.

Jimmy VincentER

That Pokémon...Jimmy had never seen it before. He hadn't even heard of a Pokémon named like that. Fennekin, was it? Anyway, Jimmy scratched his head after Rosalyn's question and prepared to answer it.

The boy looked around vacantly, then turned back to his blonde friend. "Ready to get outta here?" he said. The ER was unsettling to him, as it reminded him of his first day at the Academy: passing out in his first class. Oh, the humiliation. He shook his head as the memories returned.

Valorie stared at Mark for a moment. "I guess..." she responded half-heartedly. Wasn't it just every day in the life of a pokemon trainer to challenge the notion of a normal day and find some way to make things interesting? ADVENTUUURE! "You aren't still worried about these rockets, and...--" she started, before realizing that those bullies that had pinned her to the ground probably weren't even on Mark's mind. "Well... I've been thinking of going to Lugia Dorm and trying to purge it of the ghosts that are there. Trying to revive the elite dorm, y'know?~" she offered, seemingly bragging about the notion that she could. Regardless of what happened next, she did have one more question for Mark. This one might hit home a bit harder than previous ones. "So--...What did you call me over for?" she asked. There was a needy zorua that needed her attention somewhere around here, and she didn't have all day.

Shawn watched as the white-haired duo walk off. Good riddance, in his opinion. Braggarts are only useful for one thing: for people to see why they shouldn't be one. Kiki's voice jarred him back to reality. Did she not remember what happened?

He let Kiki go as he talked, "You're in the Lugia dorm. You're here because I wanted you here. Because of me, you fell and hopefully didn't get hurt." As he thought about it, his friends were getting hurt or disabled and he couldn't do anything about it. He turned away, feeling tears forming in his eyes.

"Why don't you two go ahead and go? I still have a pokemon to find..." Shawn said, his voice a little heavier than usual. He looked towards the staircase where he first saw a light, intending to head there.

Kilik Chambers - Cafeteria

Mana started her story with her mother deceased. Oh Arceus... That truly tortures a child. This affected Kilik greatly. It made him rethink about his parents. His parents aren't here, his father is in the hospital. He's not sure if his father will be okay, but what's important is that his parents are still alive. I guess this is okay.

Anyway, Kilik continued to listen to Mana's story. It seems she has it harder than Kilik does. Her father experimenting on her, then kicking her out. Kilik can count himself lucky. Mana isn't so lucky. Kilik rubbed the back of his head, averting his gaze at Mana. "I'm, sorry. I didn't know you had it rough." He took a sip of his drink. He wanted to change the subject so Mana didn't have to keep talking about her past, but whhat could be interesting to talk about?"

"So, what Pokemon are you hoping to find?" he asked Mana, putting his drink down to eat his grub with a spare hand. Kilik hoped Mana would respond to the new topic. How long is this Thanksgiving anyway? Right now he is wondering where Kiyoko is. He's probably enjoying the food everywhere. The taste was okay.

“Well, there is a wide variety of Pokemon on this island. They got them here from every Region, might even be a few you’ve never seen. I’m sure you’ll find so new ones with ease.” C.J. said. Even he was surprised with the amount of Pokemon he saw since his arrival.

Hmm, Raikou dorm huh? As far as C.J. could recall he hadn’t met to many from that dorm. “Honestly, I can’t recall meeting anyone from Raikou. I’m in Suicune myself.” C.J. stated realizing he wasn’t wearing the jacket, must still be in his bag. “The majority of the students are friendly though, I’m sure you’ll get along fine. But, in the mean time, I’m happy to help you out. I don’t have many friends here yet myself.”

Even back home C.J. hadn’t had a lot of friends. He didn’t get along well with the kids there. Always had something to prove. “We’re in the same boat really, I never really hung out with a lot either. Some key friends, gotta admit though, it can get lonely sometimes.”

As he continued to walk, the dorms came into view. Beautiful buildings, all of them, though you can tell how the care varies between them. Oh well, what can be done about it? Just then Ax popped out of her PokeBall taking form in time to hang from C.J.’s left shoulder. “Feeling better Ax?” “Axew.” she exclaimed excitedly. “This here is Issac and his Turtwig, Trunks. They’re new friends of ours.” C.J. explained reaching up to rub the Axew’s head.

"Maybe we can explore soon" Issac responded trying to mask his excitement as he looked around. As the dorms came into view he was completely astounded. I can't believe this is where I will be living. This is all just so wonderful.

"But yeah.. the Raikou dorm. Being a late entry I was unable to take the entrance exam and stuff. They just put me in that one. I don't mind, though. Suicune dorm, huh? That's pretty great. I have heard a lot about of it, the best of the best." Issac said with a feeling of intimidation.

Trunks looked over at the Axew. "Twwwig!" he called as he strutted over to him. "Twig twig twig."

"I sure wish I knew what they talked about." Issac was now peering down at the two pokemon. "I bet they have quite the interesting conversations."

Mark shook his head. "The Rockets? Nah. I"m not worried. This school has several professional trainers around! Whatever they got planned we'll be safe from... I hope. Places outside of the grounds are pretty dangerous but I guess that's what you gotta face as a trainer." Mark said. She went on about getting rid of the ghosts from the Lugia dorm. That didn't make Snype too happy but he supposed it didn't belong to the ghosts to begin with... stilll... he didn't want them to just be left out into the streets abandoned! They would look for another home... which could be good or bad...

"I see... well hey good luck on that. Those ghosts won't go out easily. I could try helping out. Snype's been in contact with a few of the ghosts in there." Mark said. Then it hit him. Valorie asked him why he even called her here in the first place. Darnit... it was all or nothing here. He knew very well why he called her over. He had to try...

"Well..." Mark gulped moment. "It's something I've kind of wanted to ask you for awhile... we've been friends for awhile and such... but..." Mark paused for a moment. "...well... I was wondering... if you wanted to... well..." He blushed a bit. "If... you wanted to go out with me..." Mark finally asked. Now he was really nervous. How would Valorie respond to that? He hoped that she would say yes. He PRAYED that she would say yes...

Able turned to Tyro and blinked when he asked her why he didn't have a man. She simply chuckled. "Please. Its enough to have a Trainer holding me back... the only reason I would do that is during mating season." Able said bluntly.

Len closed his eyes and cuddled closely to Diana. "Hmhm... Makes you wonder how this night could get any better..." Len said, relaxing.

“Exploring here is always nice. Haven’t been everywhere yet but I hope to see it all soon. I’m going to the mountains after class tomorrow, you can come along if you like.” C.J. proclaimed. Back to the mountains tomorrow, two Pokemon left for his dream team, one found there. “Or we could go tonight if you want, then again, it’s late. I’m sure you want your rest.”

As Trunks walked over to Ax, the young Axew jumped down to the ground. “Ax axew.” She responded. Roughly translating to ‘Hello, how are you?’ As she spoke, Ace wondered over as well, though he stayed silent.

“They converse much the same as we do. Sometimes I get more conversation out of them then I do Humans.” C.J. stated realizing only afterwards that he’d probably be questioned on it. “Yeah, Suicune is the top tier here now, though Lugia use to be miles above us even. Shame they got run out by the ghosts. If it is ever reopened I intend to try my hand at the entry exams.”

Andy looked over his shoulder at Shawn. Was it really such a good idea, staying in this rotting old place by himself? Andy sure didn't think so. Shawn was his friend though, so he said nothing that could offend him, instead simply smiling and speaking to him in an encouraging tone. Catches was beside Andy now, giving him an odd look that Andy didn't notice in the slightest, he was far too concentrated on the matters at hand.

"Go get 'em, Shawn. I'll bring Kiki t-" Andy stopped himself short. Again. Where was he going to take Kiki? To his room? He wasn't sure that was such a great idea. Someone could get the /wrong/ idea. And what if Kiki couldn't remember where /her/ dorm was? Letting out a slightly exasperated sigh, Andy looked back to Kiki. "Do you know how to get back to your room Kiki?"

Kiki blinked. Her memory of the past few minutes was kind of foggy, but she felt fine. She looked at Andy and Shawn and giggled.

"I'm fine guys, really! Why wouldn't I be? Oh, my memory? This kind of stuff happens all the time. Iwanna explore!" she said with a happy grin. She wanted to stay here. wit herfriends.

Drake

Drake looked at Kiyoko. He... Wanted to get stronger to help Valorie? Hm... Drake didn't see a problem with helping Kiyoko get stronger.

"Sure Kiyoko. I can help you." he said with a smile. He sat down and smiled, leaning back. He wasn't going to eat yet, he was going to wait for the others to arrive, Well, he might if he got hungry enough. Still, training the zorua would be... difficult. Dark Types were not his specialty. But maybe it would be a good experience.

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What is real? What is truth? Is it something you can touch? Can you see it? Find it? Hold it in your hands? What is true for you is not always the truth for someone else.

"Yay!" Kiyoko nearly hopped down, though stopped himself last-moment, knowing the dangers. "How do I be better? How do I fight? How do I win? How do I-- Ooh!" Kiyoko distractedly turned his attention to the plate full of meat as it was placed on the table. He quickly jumped down and sat down on the table, facing Drake, and picked up a whole steak with both hands. He then opened his mouth wide, revealing the fangs in each corner of the front of his mouth, and took a big bite into the steak, tugging and ripping off a piece (probably too big for him) and chewing it, a slight muffled giggle coming from behind the food. He seemed to really enjoy it, as he chewed and chewed.

"Reflect doubles the user's Defense when the opponent damages the user with a physical move."

"A physical move, huh? Not special attacks? Alright! Pidge, send out another Gust!" On command, the bird flapped her glorious wings again, kicking up a whirlwind of an attack, then aiming it directly at the Solosis.

"I'd love to go tonight. Not really that tired, but I have to get unpacked and all. Not to mention I don't really have any supplies to go out.. no pokeballs or anything. Tomorrow would be great, though. Would still need to hit a mart or something, though." Issac reluctantly stated. He wants nothing more than to see new pokemon, but doesn't want to go without pokeballs. A new team member would be great.

Ike stopped in front of the dorm building with yellow accents about it. It's many windows dark with absence with only a few a few lighted up. "Wow, can't believe this is where I'll be living now." he started, "so much different then my home in Oreburgh."

"Twi-" Trunks began, but stopped as he looked up at his new home.

"And I can't say I have heard anything about the Lugia dorm. Sounds interesting, though." Haunted?! I will never set foot even close... His mind was wrapped around there being a haunted dorm.. not really noticing the strangeness of the comment C.J. made prior.

“Well, the mountains are a lot closer to us then Oak Town is. If you like, when we go, I could lend you some supplies and we could go to the Mart afterwords. I have to go to there tomorrow anyway, my parents just bought property over that way.” C.J. said. It made more sense to him to do it that way, though it didn’t matter. Really it depended on if Issac wanted to borrow supplies before buying his own.

“Anyway, you need to get unpacked, and I have to get changed. When you go into the Dorm there will be another desk, the secretary there will tell you what room is yours. When you’re settled, I’ll be training out back if you’d like to join me. Never know, there might be some wild Pokemon wondering around.” He felt he might be coming off rather pushy or annoying but this was one of the few people he took the time to talk to since his arrival, he needed to establish a friendship of some sort.

“Come on guys, we’re going to our room for a few.” C.J said to Ace and Ax, who both turned and walked over to him. “You have any questions before I go to my dorm?” He asked, wanting to make sure Isaac was comfortable being on his own for a bit.

Mana MurasakiThe Espeon girl
At the Cafetaria

Kilik apologized for not knowing she had it rough but… why would he apologize for that? It's not like he can read minds, right? Mana showed a smile to show it was alright, but still choosed to say it as well. "Don't worry, it's not like you could've known." Mana ate the remaining fish on her plate. Yes… fish… her favorite food and not because she was partly Espeon, she liked fish since she was very small.

Kilik asked her what Pokémon she hoped to get. To be honest, there were many she liked…"Uhm… I would like a Leafeon… and a growlite… and a Zorua…" Mana started her list. "A Poochyena would be nice too." Mana moved her hand to her cheek. "I like cat, fox and wolf-like Pokémon a lot." Mana said at the end when she was finally finished.

"What about you?" Mana asked him as she putted her empty plate on a table, getting herself something to drink. Fox was trying to get attention from Kilik by circling around his legs. He obviously wanted to be patted.

"Not that I can think of," Issac responded. "But I will definitely check out back when I am settled to see if you're still back there. Thank you for everything. And that sounds fine for tomorrow. I'll reimburse you when we go to Oak Town!"

Issac started to reach for the door. "Wait" He drew his hand back.
"Let me register you in my Xtransiever" he said as he dropped his duffel bag and grabbed it from a side pocket in his backpack, extending it towards C.J.

"Out of curiosity, Will I have a room mate or is it separate rooms for each Raikou member?" Trunks kind of cocked his head at this comment. "Twwwiig?"

Valorie opened her mouth to comment on Mark helping at Lugia dorm but closed it in slow motion when he asked her that fateful question. Gosh Mark! Where did that come from?! So sudden!! Sarcasm aside, Valorie didn't know how to handle this. Guilt riddled her expression and she dropped he gaze. "I--...Mark." she said in a quiet tone that suggested she was at a loss for words. In contrast to this however she continued in a more apologetic tone. "I... really like you too, but I can't..." she started. The words felt forced, and and resented having to say them the moment they left her mouth. The bitter dark side of monogamy sunk it's teeth into her mood. "I--I..." she continued, hesitating a brief moment before blurting out the following in two short bursts. "There's some one else. I promised my heart to Selene..!" she explained. Ouch. It couldn't have felt good knowing your female rival had managed to turn your female love interest gay for them before you'd gotten a chance. Mark could've never known that it was actually the other way around, that Valorie had made the advance. Sadly, it also wouldn't occur to Valorie to explain this either.

As C.J. readied his Xtransceiver he answered Issacs last question. “Well I’ve never been in Raikou. In Suicune we have our own rooms, equipped with a bathroom and a small sitting area. I’d imagine Raikou is the same, maybe a bit lower quality stuff if any difference.”

Once they finished registering each other in their respective Xtrasceivers C.J. turned to walk to the Suicune dorm. “I’ll see you in a little while, if I’m not out back when you get there just contact me tomorrow and we’ll meet up.” C.J. said as he started walking off.

~~~

After a couple minutes he was standing outside the huge blue building that is the Suicune Dorm. C.J. opened the doors and went inside, up to his second floor room. He threw his bag on the chair beside his door and walked over to his dresser opening it to get some new clothes.

He laid the clothes on his bed and went to take a shower. After a few minutes he emerged cleaned of the blood and dirt that covered his arms and legs prior. “Ready to go guys?” C.J asked as he changed into his fresh clothes. “Yeah, we’re ready.” Ace responded. “Good.” C.J. picked up his supplies bag and saw his TM Case sitting there on the chair. Maybe we can get some use out of that too. He threw the bag over his shoulder and picked up the TM Case.

C.J. walked out the door, heading to the back of the dorms. Hopefully Issac wasn’t there and gone already.

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